Is Ada used in commercial applications?
You bet. Ada is used in e.g. airplanes, air traffic control systems, financial systems, telecommunications systems, medical devices. * The AdaIC host on the Internet contains a report of Commercial Ada Users Working Group (CAUWG) of the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Ada (ACM SIGAda). Dated June 1993, the report is a survey of applications from around the world that are written in Ada. It is in ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/usage/summary/ * The Ada Information Clearinghouse maintains a list of Ada projects that have submitted information for the AdaIC’s Ada Usage Database. It is only a sample of Ada projects, but it includes both commercial and government-related projects. For details on contacting the AdaIC, see question 5.2. * On the AdaIC host, file ftp://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/public/AdaIC/usage/summary/ contains a summary of the Ada Usage Database and a number of individual project descriptions that may be of interest (the commerc
